Boom Bow faraway from Fortnite Team Rumble LTM for being “too powerful”

Epic Games has eliminated the Boom Bow from the Team Rumble restricted time mode for being “too powerful”.

Thanks to its super-accurate reticle, large vary and harm, lots of people would say that the Boom Bow is simply too highly effective in each game sort, however apparently the tipping level was that gamers respawning with 100 well being may simply be picked off repeatedly.

Since it’s not very enjoyable to get repeatedly ganked and spawn-killed as you glide again in, Epic has launched a hotfix – which implies you received’t should reinstall any patches – to take away the merchandise from the LTM.

Epic introduced the transfer on Twitter:

We’ve launched a hotfix to take away the Boom Bow from the Team Rumble LTM. The Boom Bow was too highly effective on this mode because of gamers respwaning with 100HP.

— Fortnite (@FortniteRecreation) June 11, 2019

Where it was promptly met with instantaneous and cruel sass from professional gamers and YouTubers:

Fixed that tweet for ya 👊 pic.twitter.com/cirVM4FGkN

— Muselk (@MrMuselk) June 11, 2019

In other Fortnite news, Epic yesterday announced a new collection of skate decks inspired by the Downtown Drop LTM designs.

We’re also just days away from the annual celebrity Pro-Am tournament, which this year features the likes of Super Bowl winner Marshawn Lynch, Panic! At the Disco’s Brendon Urie, and Jay from Jay and Silent Bob for some reason.

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